Record soundcard output ? No mix options on my HDA card..

I am not able to record my soundcard output, in any desktop environment - I have never been able to on this hardware ..

I am missing the mix option to record sound.

For example - in KDE mixer I have the following options for input source- Mic- Front Mic- Line- CD

= none of these record soundcard.

As an example I am trying to record in Audacity - It doesn't matter what option I choose as the recording device - all I get is nothing or static.The options I have are- Default- spdif- HDA Nvidia :ACL888 Analog (hw0,0)- HDA Nvidia :ACL888 Digital (hw0,1)- HDA Nvidia :ACL888 Analog (hw0,2)

I am just trying to record my soundcard's output, not mic / line in - I have muted mic and linein - same.

I did post this on the kde forum and was suggested to use Jaclk.

Is there another way to do it - I have also been mentioned snd-aloop but that module does not exist...

Re: Record soundcard output ? No mix options on my HDA card..

I had the same problem with my ALC272 (a HDA chip too). You can always use a sound server like PulseAudio or use ossv4 instead of ALSA, but I prefer to keep it clean and use ALSA only (ossv4 segfault for me btw). I have a custom .asoundrc file (see below) in my home dir which makes ALSA dump any audio input to file. There are few drawbacks this solution has. First is the need to restart ALSA whenever you want to switch the recording on or off. Second is that only one "segment" is recorded and this "segment" gets overwritten when another is being recorded. Example: you enable recording and play an MP3 in some player. Raw sound data are being saved to disk. The MP3 ends and there is no other sound playing - recording stops. Now when any other sound is played, the recorded MP3 is overwritten and the last played sound takes its place. This overwriting can be sort of prevented by renaming the recorded data as soon as you finish recording or stopping ALSA. Recording can be disabled by renaming the custom .asoundrc and restarting ALSA.

Re: Record soundcard output ? No mix options on my HDA card..

I don't really understand the anti-old thread brigade. Would it be better to start a new duplicate thread about the same exact issue? I think not. Anyways, I just ran into this issue with my new laptop. So I'm glad to find this thread. I will try out these solutions soon. Thanks.

I won't delete this posting though or an admin on the Arch Way Hitler Edition (tm) will just ban me once again although I did not violate ANY forum rules (I checked this last time to make sure!) and didn't even bother to respond to my complaint about it, so keeping this as it is here, please go to my new thread, thanks!

Re: Record soundcard output ? No mix options on my HDA card..

I won't delete this posting though or an admin on the Arch Way Hitler Edition (tm) will just ban me once again although I did not violate ANY forum rules (I checked this last time to make sure!) and didn't even bother to respond to my complaint about it, so keeping this as it is here, please go to my new thread, thanks!

Necro-bumping by accident is not a big deal. It's easy to miss the date when a thread pops up in a search. You noticed this and you correctly edited your post to link to a new thread. That was good.

The fact that you then went to to unnecessarily insult the forum staff (with Godwin's law, no less) is just not acceptable. We have been very patient with you despite numerous warnings. It seems that your previous band has not taught you anything, so this time it will be a month. After that, it will likely be permanent.